In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last..

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor..

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform..

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down..

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment fro….

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it..

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together..

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room..

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than material….

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world..

Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in ….

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life..

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as ….

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty….